FROZEN MEAT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 6

FROZEN MEAT.

(Received April 22, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 21et April. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not lees than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five , quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations are not selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipment* now on tho market. The pricos which follow ar& on average a farthing per lb more than, the value ex ship, tlm difference representing an average cost in expenses, handling, conveyance, tnd selling the meat : — New Zealand Beef.— Hinds, 4W. Australian Beef. — Hinds, 4<l. South American Sheep. — Heavy, 3 7-16 d ; ewee, 3 3-16 d. South American Beef.—^Frozen fores, 3id; hinds, 4 8 d. South American Chilled Beef. — Fores, 3^*l ; hinds, 4£d. Other meat price* unchanged. RABBITS. The market for rabbits is quiet. WHEAT. Three- Australian cargoes of wheat cold at 40s 6d, 40«. and 39e 9d lespectively. LONDON MARKETS. LONDON. 20tb April. Juts.— April- May ihta&iaaU, £38 ot per

Hemp is steady and unchanged. Rubber is quoted at 4s 10£ d per lb. Cotton. — April-May shipments, 6.34 d per lb. Copra. — There is a fair business passing; South Sea, in bags, £25 5s per ton. Wheat. — T4vo Australian cargoes sold at 40s 3d, two at 40b, one each at 39s 9d, 39s 7£d, and 39s 6d, and four at 39s 4£d per quarter. LONDON WOOL SALES. At the wool sales the fleece portions of the clips named sold as follow: — Marchburn, top price 13jd, average price 10 3-8 d; Leefield, top 13d, average llgd. HIDES AND BASILS. LONDON, 20th April. Hides are in insignificant supply, and are- neglected. Basils are a farthing to halfpenny cheaper. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, have received cable advice from their head office as follows: — "Frozen Meat — Since our last cable, the market for all qualities is nro^ with an improving demand, and change, if any, is in favour of sellers. Tallow — Since our last cable, tallow in general is 6d to 9d per owt. higher."